Nahom Kidane, 27, of Parkend Road, Gloucester, Jermaine Richards, 28, of Tintern Avenue, North West London and prison inmate, Romean Legister, 30 of Coles Gree Road, Barnet, London, had all denied conspiring together between July 1 and September 14 last year to transfer prohibited ammunition containing noxious liquid or gas.

But two days into their trial at Gloucester Crown Court they changed their pleas to guilty after the judge ruled that the jury would be allowed to hear details of their criminal pasts.

The prosecution said that Kidane wanted to get hold of the tear gas ammunition and contacted Legister who, despite serving time in prison in Dorset, put him in touch with Richards.

A motorist waiting at a city centre junction was amazed to see a Ford Focus drive past with a man kneeling on the bonnet - clinging to the windscreen wipers.

The bizarre scene was caught on the motorist's dashcam and the video was played in Gloucester Crown Court when the Focus driver, Michael Seale, 29, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.

The court heard that the unwilling passenger, Radomir Seredynski, had been thrown up onto the bonnet when Seale drove at him after a confrontation moments earlier between the two men in Barton Street, Gloucester.

Seale was jailed for a year and banned from driving for 18 months. For failing to appear at magistrates’ court after his initial summons, he was sentenced to an extra seven days jail.

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Persistent beggar Wesley Gray who flouted an order banning him from Gloucester city centre 14 times has been jailed for four months.

Gray, 34, of Newton House, London Road, has not only breached a suspended sentence order made at Gloucester Crown Court in May but also a Criminal Behaviour Order made at Cheltenham Magistrates court in March.

Today Gray refused to leave his remand cell at Hewell Prison to attend court because he was concerned he may not be able to return to the same prison following sentencing.

A 61-year-old Shurdington man who paid a 14-year-old boy for sex after meeting him on website Fabguy has been jailed for five years.

At Gloucester Crown Court Christopher Gardiner of Yarnolds, Shurdington admitted he sexually assaulted the boy four times and had on at least two occasions incited the youth to perform a sex act on him.

It was thanks to classmates of the boy the offences came to light as they reported their suspicions he was in a relationship with a man.

A knife wielding robber masked who terrorised a woman worker in a Cheltenham cafe was jailed for nine years today.

It took a jury of seven men and five women less than an hour to convict Danny Curran, 50, of the robbery at Gloucester crown court today.

Jurors had seen CCTV of a masked Curran holding his knife to the throat of the woman member of staff in Kaspa's Dessert House as he dragged her around while emptying the tills of about £200 in August last year.